Who doesn’t love the sounds of nature? The team behind an album of bird songs that shook Australia’s music charts 12 months ago are at it again with a new album and a new animal.
This album will feature field recordings from another severely threatened species group – frogs. It’s called Australian Frog Calls: Songs of Disappearance and features the calls of 43 of Australia’s most threatened frogs.
The album, which was released last week to promote FrogID Week, is a collaboration between Australia Museum FrogID project, the Bowerbird Collective, Listening Earth and Mervyn Street of Mangkaja Arts.
The first Songs of Disappearance album featuring bird songs went to No.2 on the Australian Record Industry Association (ARIA) charts soon after its release.
Album producer and Charles Darwin University PhD candidate Anthony Albrecht said the decision to make another album was easy after the success of the bird song album.
“Following the success of the Songs of Disappearance bird songs album in 2021, the Bowerbird Collective was keen to follow up with an even more outlandish idea,” Mr Albrecht said.
“We felt that getting croaking frogs to the top of the ARIA charts in the name of conservation would be a great goal for the project’s second year.
“One in six of Australia’s frogs are threatened, and we have lost several species to extinction in recent decades due to chytrid fungus, climate change and habitat loss.”
People interested in hearing the frog calls can visit the website to buy the album.
Do you find sounds of nature soothing and relaxing? Did you listen to the birdsongs album?
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